The Sachsenspiegel [Mirror of the Saxons] is a deeply influential collection of territorial and feudal law compiled around 1230 by Eike von Repgow (or Repkow), a knight and judge.
It was the basis for several subsequent codes, including the Gorlitz Lawbook, the Breslau Territorial Law, the Schwabenspiegel, the Dutch Sachsenspiegel and the Berlin Townbook of Brandenburg Law. An authority on civil law well into the nineteenth century, it was a source for the German Civil Code (1896).

This volume boasts both fine typography and woodcut decorated initials. An early owner added extensive annotations to front pastedown and foot of title page -- there are also brief annotations and underlining in an early hand to some text leaves. First edition by Zobel. Text in German with parallel Latin translation.

Christopher Zobel (1499-1560) was a professor of law at at the University of Leipzig. In
addition to editing and translating this text he added a set of glosses
and an index (Repertorium). Zobel's version went through several editions.